Creative Juicy Adventure

What a funky weekend. As Tropical Storm Danny blasted through Halifax, "Guerrilla Yoga" was transplanted to our apartment. Squeezing five yogis into our living room (spilling into our dining room/hallway) was Guerrilla Yoga-Lulu style. Despite the close quarters (with Andrew using the wall as a balancing prop, the cheater!) it was a blast, finished with some fair trade, organic coffee at JustUs! Spring Garden Road Cafe-YUM. *Update: Andrew just guestimated our yogic area to be 130 square feet (he actually used his measuring tape) and has assured me that it is in fact not a lot of space (which it wasn't).

That afternoon we decided that it was time to finally finish the "project create art" for our living room. Over the past several weeks I've been drawn to Connie's "Dirty Footprints" blog where her motto is living a Creative Juicy Life.

"A Creative Juicy Life Is: Dreaming in full colour

Breating Deep and Feeling Alive

Laughing so loud it scatters fear

Loving so large that there is no room for doubt

Creating each day into your best one yet."

Doesn't that sound FAB? She posts about her beautiful painting, colour, other Creative Juicy Peeps... and I guess I found my creative fairy again! Last summer when we moved into this tiny 600 square foot apartment, before we even bought a couch, I painted some "art" for the dining room. While painting, unsure how the heck it would look, Andrew "assured" me that whatever the finished product

may be... it was going up on the wall. Thank goodness it actually looks like a tree!

Fast forward a year and I've found that my creative little self only has begun to re-emerge with the first tiny hints of Autumn. So strange

that during this gearing down, harvesting season all I feel like doing is create, begin anew and write music. I even read my Tarot (the first time in months) and pulled the Fool... I took that as my hint and yesterday we bought two canvases and some paint. Yellow and Red in fact (I already had blue, green and white).

With those primary colours I began painting... the first two hours

occurred last night. I wasn't exactly pleased with the results, but hey, it was

colourful! A little too colourful, I love greens and blues, but it wasn't a part of my master plan... sooo mashed some more colours together and toned it down. A bit anyway.

Stage Deux of Creative Juicy Life was today for another two and a half hours. In my head the image was of a tiny little seed pod with some fiery LIFE bursting out and twirling into being. I think I was

supposed to have added some more yellow but got a bit carried away

with orange... and now it looks an awful lot like a fire breathing cauldron... lol.

However, like Andrew said, whatever happens it's going up on the wall. Which will be Stage Trois. Demain. Regarless of quality (or lack thereof) the re-emergence of my Creative Fairy has been fun and I'm pumped to see how my music will evolve!

Blessings!

**UPDATE: We put the painting up tonight! Of course, our apartment also only has metal studs (which explained why for the first painting we never found any studs. Picture knocking... measuring...lol) so this actually made it easier to hang! We didn't have to be restricted by stud-guidelines. Ta Dah! (please ignore the PILES of books we have yet to shelve on the floor...) Thank you so much everyone for your oodles of support and kind words for my fire-breathing cauldron pod! The picture was taken from the outermost corner of our two foot hallway :)

Article and photos by EcoYogini at ecoyogini.blogspot.com (a Creative Juicy Life convert!)